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Rubin on ‘A Day in the Life’

Magical mystery tour and morality tale By Martin Rubin | The Washington Times, Sunday, May 31, 2009 A DAY IN THE LIFE: ONE FAMILY, THE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE, & THE END OF THE '60's By Robert Greenfield Da Capo Press, $24.95, 338 pages, illus. REVIEWED BY MARTIN RUBIN Oh, London in the Sixties, that…


Calvin Hill Day Care Center Newsletter

For the May 2009 issue of the Calvin Hill Day Care Center newsletter, click on the link below: ch_newsletter_may_2009


Harry Bear Honored

Congratulations to Harry Bear, honored for cancer research at a ceremony earlier this May; the profile below includes an update on his family as well: Harry D. Bear, M.D., Ph.D., Chairman of the Division of Surgical Oncology and Medical Director of the Breast Health Center at Virginia…


Rubin Review: Victoria and Albert

Victoria and Albert, Allies in Love By Martin Rubin, Wall Street Journal, May 16, 2009 We Two By Gillian Gill Ballantine, 460 pages, $35 Queen Victoria (1819-1901) is known to Americans perhaps more than any other British monarch in part because her name characterizes an ethos or outlook that…


Amy Koenig Named Henry Scholar

In April, Carol Hobbs of the Yale development office wrote to Gail Henry about Amy Koenig '09, whose studies at Yale are supported through the William A. Henry III '71 Scholarship Fund. A portion of Carol's letter follows: At this time, I am delighted to tell you about Amy Koenig, of the Class of…


Twain Play on Stage in Long Beach

"Is He Dead?" is the Mark Twain play that was rediscovered by our classmate Shelley Fisher Fishkin and produced on Broadway in 2007. It's now on stage in Long Beach, CA. Below is an excerpt from the L.A. Times review: "The throaty guffaw you just heard emanating from the great beyond belongs to…


Rubin on Waugh’s ‘House of Wittgenstein’

THE HOUSE OF WITTGENSTEIN: A FAMILY AT WAR By Alexander Waugh Doubleday, $28.95, 333 pages, illus. Reviewed by Martin Rubin, Washington Times, May 4, 2009 In "The House of Wittgenstein," Mr. Waugh has, indeed, taken on a tribe about as different from his own as you might find. . . . And if all…


Rubin on ‘Kipling Sahib’

'Kipling Sahib: India and the Making of Rudyard Kipling, 1865-1900' by Charles Allen The author's vivid characters and panoramic vistas helped define a nation, but no more than that nation defined him. By Martin Rubin May 2, 2009--L.A. Times When the arch-satirist Nancy Mitford wanted to establish…


Paul Angiolillo: Sculptures

One of the fun things about working on Yale71.org is that in the course of registering classmates for the site, I get to see websites that I might not otherwise know about. One such is Paul Angiolillo's, at http://www.paul.angiolillo.net/, with photos of Paul's beautiful and often whimsical…


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Effective Thursday March 26, the server that hosts Y71.org has been moved.  In the short term, this means that links and passwords you've bookmarked previously may not work.  Please re-enter them. In the longer term, it means newer and better technology running under the hood of our web site.  We…